Trust is time to ask yourself, to find the strength to ask
Questions free the answering, unbinding them our task
Faith is time spent wondering, what we’re meant to find
Imagine it’s your purpose, adventure by design
Belief is time to listen, but who has time for that?
Especially when the answers, knock expectations flat
— Dream Yet Complete
Y’know, if I could just get students to understand the hidden meaning within those six lines, the rest of the year would take care of itself.
Welcome to the Mac Lab. Before I can activate your account and give you the keys to your own WordPress website, I need both you and your parent or guardian to read your respective pages (Students | Parents), read the classroom and district policies, and complete and submit this form.
You cannot earn XP or Gold without being signed in to the site and you can’t sign in without an account. There’s no way around it, both you and a parent or guardian has to read the classroom and district policies, and complete and submit this form. before you can begin playing the game.
Links to the Quests will go live on Wednesday morning so get the form filled out and submitted!
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Day One: Since you can’t begin the Quests yet, your mission is to learn how to use the tablet at your workstation while exploring our site.
Warning: Don’t ditch the mission. (Bad things will happen.)
Hint: You’ll make more progress if you help each other.
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0905: If this is your first day in the Mac Lab, read from the top of the page and follow instructions.
Warning: You may not embark on Quests unless you are signed in to your account.
If you and your parent/guardian submitted the online form, follow the instructions on the board.
Quests:
- Your Account
- Understanding Quests
- The Code of Honor
- Understanding the Rubric
- The Stats Page
- Understanding Mastery
- Electronic Device Policy
- Bell to Bell
- Minutes and Attendance
- Respect
- Food and Drink
- Stay on Task
- Computer Settings
- Music via iTunes
- Restroom Passes
All right! Way to stick with the Quests so far.
Required Viewing: Progress Check
Quests:
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0906: Complete the quests in order and stop skipping steps. (This isn’t a race.)
I’m activating your blogs today. Don’t worry about your blog until you’ve completed all the other quests before it.
Don’t jump to Go for the Gold until completing every other quest.
Warning: Complete the quests in order, stop skipping steps, or you’ll forfeit gold.
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0907: Complete this Quest before you do anything else today.
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Hey Skocko, I have all of the quests completed and now have 20 gold, I was wondering when the itunes store is going to be open
True, when is that going to happen Skocko?
Paid Content will go live on Monday but the prices have changed. Free market economies are like that.
Awesome, I can’t wait.
Mr. Skocko, you should have special weekend store discounts, so then the blog gets more activity during weekends.
I agree with @TaskforceOperativeNumberTwo
An excellent idea. Maybe a special every weekend? Hmmm…
http://www.brighthub.com/content/guestblogging.aspx
This could be a sweet bit of attention.
Just thought that this was somewhat relevant.
Yousif that’s a good idea.
Skocko what do we do if we have completed all of the current quests? What do we move on to?
You’ve done a good job with your blog. If you’re looking for things to do, I’d suggest either mastering quests you’ve not yet mastered or exploring this site more completely. Or both.
More quests will open with the Week 2 post on Monday morning.
Did you pay gold for that music Skocko?
I paid cash for my music.
If you play games then you know the Boss often plays by his (or her) own rules.
This is what a decent Blog post looks like, young ones.
http://bit.ly/QmXqBQ
You guys might not get too creative enjoy setting up a blog under early conditions, but there’s all kinds of fun stuff down the road – theming, personalizing, etc.
You do realize that if you’re on a school computer you can’t open that link. The network blocks it, for good reasons. And why do you need to disguise it anyway? That link could be anything.
It’s not disguised, it’s shortened with bit.ly. That’s something I taught the kids last year and will do again. (bit.ly wasn’t blocked last year.) Extra long links break the formatting of our page.
As for where it goes, I check everything. If it went anywhere unsavory, I’d delete it and discipline the student.
BTW: It goes here.
just testing a hunch to see if the same problem will get replicated on the actual site